[OpenIndiana-discuss] How to create a bootable USB stick on OI?

Rich rercola at acm.jhu.edu
Fri Aug 17 17:55:01 UTC 2012


It's fairly straightforward. You want what, a bootable (Free)DOS USB key?

You should be able to mostly follow
http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/FreeDOS_Flash_Drive, but with different
paths to your GRUB data files, presuming they're installed [I haven't
checked, I'm not near any of my OI systems]...

- Rich

On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 1:37 PM, Gary Mills <gary_mills at fastmail.fm> wrote:
> Has anybody figured out how to do this?  I need to update the BIOS on
> a system with a Tyan motherboard.  Tyan support sent me an EXE file
> and a BAT file along with the BIOS image as a ROM file.
>
> I understand that I need to create a bootable USB stick that contains
> the minimal DOS files needed to execute the batch file.  I have an HP
> utility that will run under Windows on another box to do this, but I'd
> prefer to do it under OI if that's possible.
>
> --
> -Gary Mills-            -refurb-                -Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada-
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